BIA Journalism

Written by: Aleksandar Radoman and Đorđe Šćepović

The fact that these so-called media outlets are, in reality, Vučić’s propaganda arms of the BIA, contaminating Montenegrin public space, is confirmed by their latest attacks from tabloid watchdogs. The so-called Press portal, formally edited by one Ranko Miljanić but a mouthpiece for Serbian agencies, is targeting Adnan Čirgić because he dared to express his opinion in a column about the persecution of Milivoje Katnić.

That these are half-literate, or more often outright illiterate, factories of lies is further proven by their attempt to link Adnan Čirgić to a PNE NGO?! As far as we know, no such NGO exists in Montenegro. There is, however, the Montenegrin PEN Center, of which Čirgić is president, and whose duty is to highlight social issues, just as it is the duty of every free citizen of Montenegro.

These BIA pseudo-media outlets want to suppress freedom of speech and thought, which is why they manufacture lies and paint targets on anyone outside their control. From the same source yesterday came the "response" to Boban Batrićević, who pointed out similarities between Hitler’s National Socialist Party and the New Serbian Democracy in a comparative analysis. The newly appointed defender of the party, M. Simunović, tried to discredit Batrićević by cheap distortions and what psychology calls projection. This Vučić loyalist attributes the Nazi legacy of his party to Batrićević and the Montenegrins. Since these are well-known facts that need no repetition, we will only add that a party whose heroes are collaborators, war criminals, and mass murderers like Draža Mihailović, Pavle Đurišić, Ratko Mladić, Radovan Karadžić, and whose saints are Maca Vukojičić, Slobodan Šiljak, and collaborator Joanikije Lipovac, can only accuse others of fascism within the twisted reality of the “Serbian world” parallel universe.

Still, similar smear campaigns and public targeting recently led to a brutal physical attack on Nikola Jovanović, mayor of Budva. So we ask: Is the goal of these fabricated lies to turn those deemed undesirable into legitimate targets? Both the architects and perpetrators of these dirty deeds should understand that their efforts are in vain. To quote agent Simunović one last time: “You will not succeed.” And you won’t.